Equity crowdfunding, peer to peer
StakeCrew is where ambitious builders pool small stakes into real startups. Post your idea with real financials, or back one from as little as £500 and take home actual equity — not a T-shirt.
The problem
Graduates and first-time founders are sitting on good ideas with no runway and no rolodex — while the connections and capital they need are scattered across a hundred strangers who'd back them in a heartbeat, if they only knew each other existed.
You don't need connections, you need conviction. Most early ideas die not from a bad plan, but from never reaching the hundred people who'd have backed it.
Angel networks and VC deal flow are gated by who you know. Meanwhile thousands of people have £500–£5,000 they'd happily put behind someone they believe in.
Fifty or sixty ideas, a few hundred people, everyone diversifying a little capital and a little expertise across each other. One of them gets off the ground — maybe more.
How it works
Three steps, one goal: get scrappy, early ideas from a Google Doc to a funded company with real backers behind it.
Post your idea like a mini pitch deck: a short video, the problem and solution, how much you need, your minimum ticket size, and a simple use-of-funds breakdown.
Backers browse the marketplace and express real interest from as little as £500 — as an investor, on the team, or both. Founders see exactly who's serious and take it from there.
Hit your goal and StakeCrew guides you through incorporation, equity split agreements, and IP filing — so backers get real, documented equity from day one.
Live on StakeCrew
How backing works
StakeCrew doesn't move money — it's early, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than fake an escrow account. Here's exactly what happens instead.
Choose an amount from the minimum ticket up, whether you want to invest, join the team, or both.
Your full answer is visible only to the founder — everyone else just sees a headcount.
The founder follows up to take your interest from a signal to an actual agreement.
Once money is genuinely changing hands, StakeCrew points you to standard equity paperwork.
For founders
Backers back clarity. A strong pitch on StakeCrew includes:
60–90 seconds, you talking straight to the camera about the problem and why you're the one solving it.
Plain language. What's broken, and what you're building instead.
Your total raise target, and the smallest amount someone can back you with — as low as £500.
A simple use-of-funds breakdown — even a rough one — so backers know where their stake goes.
Preview
Trust & safety
No gimmicks about what StakeCrew already does versus what it's building toward.
Expressing interest never moves money. It's a structured, honest signal — not a checkout pretending to be one.
What a backer would invest and why is visible only to the founder — never public, never sold.
Once a raise is genuinely happening, we point you to standard equity agreement templates — you and your backers finalize them together.
A plain-English rundown of what founders typically need to file and when — not a black-box guarantee.